PLAYING THE THRESHOLD / THRESHOLD OF PLAY
I am attempting to bundle highly performative stormwater infrastructure to incremental operations for play. (please see bottom of post for indications of the living infrastructural systems I am referring to, largely bioretention / biofiltration / catchment schemes.)
These are essentially concept sketches, but they are attempting to begin intervention on two fronts; manipulation of the ground plane (to effect a more playful and performative topography) and the development of a vocabulary for aerial constructs / anchors that aggregate to form giant swings, seats, outlooks, and shade canopies. I have identified 5 sites to test different dimensions of these maneuvers, towards a more sublime playtime that generates a network of interventions for various constituencies along the corridor.
The pink represents bamboo, which I intend to test out as a stormwater basin crop to provide quickly growing, harvestable material, which can then be deployed in conjunction with steel and concrete to yield / reinforce these play sculptures.
These are some basic precedents for green stormwater infrastructure that I am adapting to deploy in a variety of situations along N American (from VA stormwater 2011 BMPs)
I am attempting to bundle highly performative stormwater infrastructure to incremental operations for play. (please see bottom of post for indications of the living infrastructural systems I am referring to, largely bioretention / biofiltration / catchment schemes.)
These are essentially concept sketches, but they are attempting to begin intervention on two fronts; manipulation of the ground plane (to effect a more playful and performative topography) and the development of a vocabulary for aerial constructs / anchors that aggregate to form giant swings, seats, outlooks, and shade canopies. I have identified 5 sites to test different dimensions of these maneuvers, towards a more sublime playtime that generates a network of interventions for various constituencies along the corridor.
The pink represents bamboo, which I intend to test out as a stormwater basin crop to provide quickly growing, harvestable material, which can then be deployed in conjunction with steel and concrete to yield / reinforce these play sculptures.
These are some basic precedents for green stormwater infrastructure that I am adapting to deploy in a variety of situations along N American (from VA stormwater 2011 BMPs)
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